Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Dave Stern as he wound up his affairs: "I'm just awful tired and confused. The people I thought were for me, were against me. I'm 60 and if I ever do another stroke of work in my life I'm a sucker. I'm going to lie on a beach and not even think, and just be a mollusk." It was hard for Philadelphia to believe that Stern could ever take it easy. Some guessed that he and his son, David III, publisher of the Camden papers, would take their money (around...
...powerhouse dunked the Army 53 to 22 last Saturday in the pool of the Hudson River dwellers. Jim Van Fleet was the sole Pointer to hit the wall anywhere ahead of the pack, and at that he only tied Yale's Ed Weiss in the 220-yard breast stroke. The Crimson's Chuck Hoelzer, on comparative times, may edge even this heavy...
Died. Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, 48, Naples-born, onetime kingpin of Chicago gangdom, longtime U.S. Public Enemy No. 1, for years a mentally incompetent paretic; following a stroke and pneumonia; at his palatial villa near Miami Beach. (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
With facts & figures, Professor Moore demonstrated that the technique most good players use is scientifically superior: the pendulum stroke, with forearm swinging vertically from the elbow. Unfortunately for Professor Moore's thesis, Willie uses a sidearm stroke. It was a habit he picked up lying belly-to-billiard-table as a boy of five. Said 59-year-old Willie Hoppe: "It's too complicated for me. I guess this analysis came too late to help my game...
...grizzled Negro, was wheeled in on a mobile bed. Paralyzed by a stroke, he had not touched foot out of bed for a year and a half. He lay with both legs stiffly bent...